Nokia & T-Mobile Small & Cell Forum
Emeka Obiodu comments on “Nokia boosts Lumia with new app partnerships”:
“Nokia, pushing to make up ground on Apple and Google, unveiled a slew of app partnerships for its range of Lumia smartphones at CTIA.
Beyond the fanfare, there were no big surprises in the list of partners. For gamers, Angry Birds and EA are offering to re-create their titles for Nokia smartphones. Other partners include PayPal, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and Box. The PGA Tour, ESPN, Groupon, AOL, and Tripdots claim to be offering new apps exclusive to Nokia’s Lumia, but it is not clear how markedly different these are to existing titles, or whether they offer any new significant capability.”
Whereas Daryl Schoolar has been paying close attention to T-Mobile’s announcements and how they are showing strength and commitment at CTIA. Daryl comments:
“Ericsson and NSN will provide and install state-of-the-art, Release 10–capable equipment at 37,000 cell sites across T-Mobile’s 4G network, increasing signal quality and enhancing performance beginning in 2012.
The network deal is particularly good news for NSN, which has struggled to win a major LTE deal. NSN was already the incumbent base station vendor for T-Mobile’s HSPA network, so the deal is more of a continuation. It will also justify NSN’s decision to focus on North America, Japan, and South Korea as growth regions for its turnaround. NSN will supply its high-end base station – the Flexi 10 – opening up the deployment to support a C-RAN configuration.”
Finally, but by no means least Emeka keeps the comments flowing, this time following the Small Cell Forum. Emeka comments:
“The Small Cell Forum has released a whitepaper, outlining the opportunities and challenges facing public access 3G small cell deployments. In a press release at CTIA, the Forum highlighted the potential role of small cells, which can be used to offload the majority of mobile user traffic from the local macro network. For example, it found that with a ratio of one public access small cell per macrocell, 21% of users would be offloaded; this rises to 56% with four small cells and 75% with 10 small cells.”
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